Migration: Educational, Political and Cultural Aspects Beit Berl College 18-19 March 2019 Lecturers’ Bio Notes Steering Committee: Prof. Amos Hofman (Chairperson), Prof. Kussai Haj-Yehia, Dr. Orit Abuhav, Dr. Liat Yakhnich, Dr. Merav Nakar-Sadi, Dr. Adi Binhas, Dr. Ronit Web- man-Shafran, Dr. Saami Mahajna, Anat Benson Note: Bio-notes are listed alphabetically. They are presented as provided by the authors, with only minor editing. Alter, Grit Innsbruck University [email protected] Dr Grit Alter received her Ph.D. from the Münster University (Germany) in 2015. She currently holds a post-doc position at the School of Education/Department of Foreign Language Teacher Education at Innsbruck University (Austria). Her research interests include literature for young readers in foreign language education, CEF-based lit- erary competences, and concepts of cultural learning, textbook analysis, critical media literacy and means of differentiation in ELT. Arar, Khalid Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education [email protected] Prof. Khalid Arar, specializes in research on educational administration, leadership and policy analysis in education and higher education. He conducted studies in the Middle-East, Europe and in North America and in many other cross-national con- texts. His research focuses broadly in equity and diversity in educational leadership and higher education. He serves as associate editor for the International Journal of Leadership (Routledge). Dr. Arar is a board member of International Journal of Educational Management, Higher Education Policy, Journal of Educa- tion Administration & Applied Research in Higher Education. He authored Arab women in management and leadership (2013, Palgrave); Higher Education among the Palestinian Minority in Israel (2016, Pal- grave, with Kussai Haj-Yehia); and edited six different books in Higher Education, Multicultural Educa- tion, and Educational Leadership. His forthcoming edited books include: Migrants, Refugees and Global Challenges in Higher Education (Peter Lang Publishing, with Kussai-Hej-Yehia; David Roose, & Yasar Kondakci) and Education, Immigration and Migration: Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World (Emerald Publishing, with Jeffrey Brooks & Ira Bogotch); and (contracted). Building Welcoming Educational Capacity for Immigrants. Routledge. Balaban, Yael Beit Berl College [email protected] Yael Balaban holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Ad- vanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Balaban holds a B.F.A. from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and M.A. cum laude in Hebrew literature from Ben-Guri- on University. Her research interests include modern Hebrew literature, sensory representations in literature, and musi- cal ekphrasis. Her first book, Many Voices: Reading the Prose of Shulamith Hareven, Jerusalem: Magnes Press [Hebrew] is forthcoming in 2019. Other recent publications include: “Tchaikovsky is Brahms’ Wife – Musical representations in Shulamith Hareven’s Prose” I’yunim Bitkumat Israel (Thematic issue: Music -2- in Israel, [Hebrew]); “Musical Moments in Prose Fiction” (with N. Wagner) Dapim LeMechkar BeSi- frut, (2014); “Smell and Spirit in David Shahar’s ‘Palace of Shuttered Vessels’”, I’yunim Bitkumat Israel (2014) [Hebrew]. Ben-Aharon, Maya Beit Berl College [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Maya Ben-Aharon, criminologist and organizational and strategic consultant. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in criminology from Bar-Ilan University, and M.A. in organizational sociology from Ben Gurion University. She is a graduate of the Social-Rehabilitation Criminology program at Bar-Ilan University. In the past, she taught criminology courses at “Nitzavim” program in Bar-Ilan University, in the “Eshkol” program in Haifa University, Ashkelon Academic College and today she is a lecturer at Beit Berl College. As part of her academic research activities, she led and participated in qualitative research in various fields. In addition, she has extensive practical experience working with youth at risk and juvenile offend- ers, as a result of her work at the Youth Promotion Bureau, and as mediator of restorative justice process- es with Kedem Association. As part of her work as organizational consultant, she accompanied organizational processes in the Min- istry of Public Security, the Israel Police and the Israel Prison Service. Her work included organizational diagnosis and development, with an overall view of the organization’s needs and resources, the challenges facing it and its service recipients. Ben Ner, Guy Beit Berl College [email protected] Guy Ben-Ner received his Bachelor of Arts in Education in 1997 from Hamidrasha, Beit Berl, and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University, New York in 2003. Ben-Ner represented Israel in the 2005 Venice Biennale. He had solo exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2006); Center for Contemporary Photog- raphy, Melbourne (2006); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal (2007); L’Espace Shawinigan of the National Gallery of Canada(2008); and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2009). He participated in the sculpture project 2017, Munster and manifesta 2016 in Saint Petersburg. His work appears at the collection of MoMa, NY, the Gugenheim and The Israel museum amongst others. -3- Bielewska, Agnieszka SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wrocław [email protected] Agnieszka Bielewska received her Ph.D. in sociology from Manchester Metropol- itan University in 2010 and since then works as an Assistant Professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Psychology in Wrocław, Poland. Her primary academic interests include international migration, nationalism and identity. Her research fo- cuses on the impact of globalization on national identity and connection between identity and place. She published with “Ethnicities” and “Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power”. Binhas, Adi Beit Berl College [email protected] Adi Binhas is a lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences and the Department of Social Organizational Management at Beit Berl College. She served as chairperson of the Department of Public Administration and Policy, chairperson of the Organi- zational Development and Conflict Resolution Program, and chairperson of the De- partment of Social Sciences at Beit Berl College. She is a researcher of immigration and immigrant integration policy. Her research deals with the influence of non-governmental actors on public policy in the field of immigration in Israel. In 2017-2018, she was a postdoctoral student at the Mofet Institute in Tel-Aviv writing about the immigration policy in the educa- tion system. Her research has been presented at conferences and academic journals. Cherkassky, Zoya [email protected] Zoya Cherkassky was born in 1976 in Kiev and immigrated with her family to Israel in 1991. She studied at HaMidrasha School of Art (Beit Berl College) and the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem. Her work has been exhibited at major muse- ums and institutions worldwide, including the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, and MARS Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow. Her awards include the Ingeborg Bachman Scholarship, established by renowned artist Anselm Kiefer, and the Israel Ministry of Education and Culture Prize for a Young Artist. Her work is represented in the collections of such insti- tution as the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum, New York, and the Jewish Museum, Berlin. -4- Dätsch, Christiane Ludwigsburg University of Education [email protected] Studied German studies, journalism and romance studies at the universities of Bamberg and Lyon (1989-95). Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg (2000-2003). Voluntary work and activity as local and political editor (1995-2000) and in public relations (2003-2011), amongst others as press spokeswoman for the German Liter- ature Archive in Marbach, and as Head of the Communication Department of the Baden State Museum in Karlsruhe (including PR, marketing, museum pedagogics). Teaching assignments at the Institute of Journalism and the Office for Continuing Education at the University of Hamburg. Academic Councilor since 2011 and, since 2015, Senior Academic Councilor at the Institute for Cultural Management of the Ludwigsburg University of Education. Däuble, Helmut Ludwigsburg University of Education [email protected] Senior lecturer for political sciences and student counselor at Ludwigsburg Univer- sity of Education. He graduated middle-school-teacher in mathematics, history and civic education with more than 10 years of teaching-experience. Dr. Däuble holds a master’s degree in Sociology from the New School for Social Research, New York, and a Ph.D. in political science on “Migration-Collective Identity-Civic Education”. His research interests include political culture, relation between democracy and capitalism, migration and collective identity, didactics and methods of civic education. Dressler, Tamar [email protected] I am a journalist at Maariv (an Israeli newspaper and media outlet) and a special- ist in international humanitarian assistance, I have been involved in international humanitarian affairs since 2003. I worked and volunteered throughout the world. I worked for the UN News Agency, the News Group, the Jerusalem Post, Bridges